I confess I've never paid much attention to birds in Framingham\u00a0except noting the huge numbers that congregate on the telephone wires at the lights on Rt. 30 and the Burr St. Extention\u00a0by Midway Motors.<\/p>\n
My mother, on the other hand, has several bird feeders and enjoys the variety of birds that visit her yard in Maynard.\u00a0 She has a bird feeder that sticks onto a window with suction cups.\u00a0 If you are patient and slow moving, you can see many of the birds up close.\u00a0 The more I saw the birds this past summer, the more interested I became.<\/p>\n
For my birthday my mother and sister gave me a window birdfeeder like my mothers and a bag of sunflower birdseed.\u00a0 Mom told me it sometimes takes a while for the birds to find the feeder.\u00a0 I think it was late October that I filled it and scattered seed on the ground.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 I also didn't see that many birds in the yard.<\/p>\n
Weeks went by.\u00a0 I added some popcorn and spread\u00a0\u00a0more seed on the ground.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 Although the seed on the ground disappeared.<\/p>\n
I spread more seed and put some on the window sill.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 My mother gave me a fake cardinal which is about like size.\u00a0 She said that putting red by the feeder can help, as well as having a decoy.<\/p>\n
Finally, about three weeks ago a chickadee appeared, grabbed a seed, and flew off.\u00a0 He came back again a few minutes later.\u00a0 My Marine son, home for the holidays even got excited.\u00a0 He called the bird the scout.<\/p>\n
Intermittently a chickadee has since appeared and helped himself.<\/p>\n
This morning I saw a chickadee and then my other son said, hey, there's a robin in the side yard.\u00a0 Actually there were four, going from tree branch to tree branch on the other side of the house from the feeder.\u00a0 I didn't think that robins appeared until the warm weather in April, but there they were.<\/p>\n
I wandered back to the room with the birdfeeder and within a half hour saw\u00a0 robins going for seed on the ground that I had scattered while the chickadee made several runs at the feeder and the windowsill.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I also saw a woodpecker, a bluejay, and some grayish birds, starlings?,\u00a0 grackles?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then all the birds left the scene for a couple of hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The grayish ones, about the size of a robin, as well as a few robins, just reappeared and swooped in and pecked at the seeds on the ground as well as at the dirt and mulch showing through the snow around the foundations of my and my neighbor's houses.\u00a0 I take care to move very slowly as I sit and type and watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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